JohnGraham

Origin – EastHanoverTownshipLancasterPennsylvania

2nd Generation

1. John Graham (Son of)

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Localities: East Hanover Twp. Lancaster Co

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2. Henry Graham (Son of John)

Born: June 6th 1757 EastHanoverTownshipLancasterCounty - PresentDayDauphinCounty

Died: May 4th 1836, TurbotTownshipNorthumberlandCountyPA

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Veteran: Revolutionary War; Pension File: S23673, Executed August 23rd1832 (File 1832)

On August 23rd 1832, Henry was 75 years old

Localities: East Hanover Twp. Lancaster Co, then in 1790 moved to Turbot Twp Northumberland Co

Near WarriorRunChurch

Various locations related to his service in the Revolutionary War

Married: Elizabeth Ferguson at EastHanoverTownship, LancasterCountyPA in 1788 (Engle 1886)

Born: 1761 in HanoverTownshipLancasterCounty – Present day DauphinCounty

Died: 1805 in TurbotTownshipNorthumberlandCountyPA

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Parents: David and mother unknown (Engle 1886)

Born:in Northern Ireland about 1725

Died: July 1755in HanoverTwp.LancasterCounty - Present Day Dauphin Co

Married: twice, 1st wife unknown; 2nd wife; married 1763 to Jean Woods

Parents: William Ferguson and Margaretof Ireland

Immigrated: about 1740

William died in 17555, and his wife Margaret a few years after that.

Children; James, Samuel, David, and Margaret

Children: (Engle 1886)

2. John: born April 17th 1789; died July 14th 1849 in AdamsCounty

2. James: born 1791; died 1861, did not marry

2. David E.: born 1798; died in Illinois at an advanced age, married Elizabeth Foster

2. Matthew Woods: born 1795; died 1870 near FreeportIllinois, married Martha Shannon

2. Henry: Is this Henry the one who shows up in Juniata with William of Tuscarora Valley?

2. Jane: married William McGuire in 1852, and lived in LewisTwp.NorthumberlandCountyPA

2. Eleanor: married Robert Finney

2. Elizabeth: married Joseph Philips

Henry’s Revolutionary War Service: 17 ½ months as a Private, and 2 months as an Ensign (File 1832)

Henry volunteered and served with the Pennsylvanian Troops sometime in 1776

  • Starting 6 months as a private in William Brown’s Company of the Flying Camp
  • Pennsylvania: 1st Regiment Flying Camp of LancasterCounty, 1776 (Miller 1996)
  • Consisted of many battalions
  • Stationed at Awboy
  • Fort Lee the back North to the Hudson River
  • From December 1777, 2 months as a private in Captain Ambrose Crain’s Company
  • Captain James McCrite’s (McCright) Company: Henry was a private, serving during these periods:
  • From the fall of 1778, 2 months
  • Late Fall 1779, 2 months
  • Fall 1780, 6 weeks
  • Fall 1781, 2 months
  • Fall 1782, 2 months
  • Colonel Klots, LancasterCounty
  • Fall of 1779, 2 months, commissioned by PA Governor Mifflin to the rank of Ensign

Bibliography

1. File 1832: Revolutionary Pension File, S39615, Volume G Page 204, S23673, File 3745 Pennsylvania Roll, Pension Issued October 19th 1818,

2. Engle 1886: Pennsylvania Genealogies; Scotch-Irish and German, by William Henry Engle M.D., M.A., Harrisburg, Lane S. Hart, Printer and Binder, 1886

3. Miller 1996: The Flying Camp Battalion, John Allen Miller, Emmitsburg Area Historical Society, February 1996,